#aph sparta

[monaluisa]

Me when I (Dorian warrior chad) survive the plague instead of my virgin Athenian sister

An AU where Sparta survived instead of Athens won’t leave my mind, so here’s some Byzantine Argurios for you guys :)

[athensandspartaadventures]

Sparta C6 and Athens A7 please ;w;

i am LOVING the chaotic energy of this one, thank you :D

pick your preference:

Athens imagining Sparta doing this because his mind is a bit detached from reality

Sparta imagining this because it's the inner self he can't express or he'll die

Corinth imagining this because she needs to entertain herself somehow

[acetechne]

Sparta A for the pose thing! >:D

no i don’t know what is happening with the colours. I WAS going to draw something more revealing but my brain went for the hoplite armour because i havent drawn it in a long time

[attichoney4u]

Note: the series was inspired by @athensandspartaadventures by Hapo (@allbeendonebefore ) and has no intention to insult you, rather to entertain you. Without further ado, enjoy!

Big inspiration from @allbeendonebefore . The design for Sparta was based from her work.

After a long, LONG time, I finally figured a way to present Modern Sparta. To be honest, I had such a hard time, mainly because Modern Sparta is such an obscure town in Greece. No kidding! For a town that had such an influence on Ancient Greece, almost no body talks about its modern incarnation and it's ALWAYS about the ancient city.

Ok, maybe I'm wrong. There was a time that Modern Sparta was indeed talked, but that was because of all the weird shits that happened in its City Councils and it was popular to make fun of the Spartans because of that (one thing that you should understand about as Greeks is that we don't uplift each other and whenever we have the chance, we will make fun of each other). Not helped by the fact that for many Greeks outside of the Peloponnese, this was the first time they heard about Sparta after the Peloponnesian War and… it didn't have a good image on their heads. Then, the City Counsils stopped being interesting and Sparta faded into obscurity once again. So, in few words, that's the image that the majority of Greeks have about this town.

Then, I became friends with a girl from Laconia and she told me some things about Sparta. Here are some notes:

The Spartans are extremely tall [ironically, she's short (for their standards, for our standards, she's considered of average height)]

They're also extremely laconic (ironically, her twin brother is extremely talkative and he feels out of place there for that reason)

They're just introverts who need an extrovert to do all the talking for them

Now, that we've got that covered, let's move on some notes of this comic.

The upper image depicts Sparta hitting an olive tree to make the olives fall. Mani, which is in Laconia, is famous for its olive oil production. He says "I'm working like a helot".

"I'm working like a helot" is a phrase that we Greeks use when we overwork ourselves ("wHaT?!" a Northern European might wonder. "GrEEks oVeRWorkInG thEmSElves To DeaTh?! tHaT's ImPOssibLe! ThEy'rE lAzY!"). It's derived (if what I know is correct) from the slaves of Ancient Sparta, the Helots, who were said to work on harsh and brutal conditions. I was torn between having either Messene (Mr. Helot, in the original comic) or Sparta to say that, but I decided with the latter, since it would be funnier because… irony.

The American tourists in the middle image are, of course, refering to "This! Is! Sparta!" meme from 300.

That's all I have to offer. Have a good day (or night depending on what time exactly you're reading this post) 😘

[allbeendonebefore]

What I say my sound weird, but I am gonna say it anyway. So, I noticed that:

Athens' main colour is green while Sparta's is red

Sparta puts huge emphasis on bravery

Athens is described, at least by you (and by Blue from OSP) as being extremely ambitious

One of Athena's animal symbol was (besides the owl) the snake

Athens' two mythical kings were half-human, half-snake creatures

Athens' element was water (as it was a huge naval power back in Ancient Greece)

Are we sure that Sparta wasn't the Gryffindor and Athens wasn't the Slytherin of the greek city-states?

Correct :')

Although Sparta's bravery was more theoretical than a practice xDD

[aph--carthage]

Did Carthage know Sparta? (i remember a spartan general helped train Carthaginian soldiers)

clever anon!  

It was a spartan mercenary general by the name of Xanthippus—and while Carthage isn’t fond of many greeks, Sparta here shares a lot of similarities to her in the way of constitution. 

…also big inspiration from how @athensandspartaadventures draws Sparta!

[lilithkb]

This was a project I was doing while I read a history book, but this was the start of my take on Ancientalia!!! The point was to make a representation on the various nations that were back in the day part of the game as I read about them so I would have a better idea of how they were personality-wise.

I started with the younger versions of both Ancient Rome and Germania. Before he was a big Empire, Rome was a boy with a lot of energy and a smooth talker who just always dreamt big. On the other hand, Germania was a slender guy with more patience than blood in his veins and who wasn't much of a word person and preferred nature over people, like, all the time.

Then my OC's I guess? Who are what would be considered the root of the modern day Greece: Hélade, Sparta and Macedonia.  I tried to make them three have a certain thing that Greece has too: eyes, hair, physique... 

Hélade, or mama Greece, was a quiet woman who loved people and art over everything else. She always wanted peace and had always the biggest arguments with her brother Sparta. She had the most amazing green eyes on earth, of course!

Sparta was the rowdy, loud-mouthed, bellicose brother who admired Strength over anything else. Even though he was not always on bad terms with his sister Hélade, they were always arguing because of how clashing their personalities were. I think Greece got his big, bulky body from him! 

Finally, we have Macedonia, who did not like the spotlight much (not until Alexander the Great was born...) and was more prone to just evade his responsibilities and daydreamt as a job almost. He didn't like getting involved in his siblings' constant quarrels, but he always had his own opinion on the matters, of course! His descendant is also a sleepy boy and had his wavy, untamed hair!

[monaluisa]

THE Sparta faceclaim of all time is Farya Faraji, who makes absolutely goated historical-inspired music on his Youtube channel. The moment I started describing Argurios in excessive detail I knew that I was just gonna end up imagining him.